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Doris Hambuch deposited Including E-Literature in Mainstream Cultural Critique: The Case of Graphic Art by Khaled Al Jabri in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay uses the image-based work of Emirati cartoonist Khaled Al Jabri to address concerns of technological dependence to reconsider our use of screens. The production of electronic literature requires technologies responsible for undeniable hazards unique to today’s information and gadget age. As represented in Al Jabri’s graphic art, these…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFor at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoA brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoEnglish 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]
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Renata Kobetts Miller deposited Syllabus for Melodrama, with assignments, Spring 2019 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis is a syllabus for Renata Kobetts Miller’s capstone research course on Melodrama at the City College of New York in Spring 2019. It is built on the Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama, edited by Carolyn Williams (2018). The syllabus includes the final assignment sequence for scaffolded research.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Samuel Amago deposited Local Landscapes, Global Cinemascapes, and the New Galician Documentary in the group
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay analyzes recent experimental documentaries by Lois Patiño and Xurxo González (aka Xurxo Chirro) within the context of the Novo Cinema Galego, its digital modes of production, its geographical aesthetics, and the ways in which it visualizes ever-evolving notions of Galician identity and point of view. While these directors’ films pro…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession
Contact emails…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: “Advocating for Foreign Language Departments” (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago2020 MLA CFP: Advocating for Foreign Language Departments
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession
Contact email…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear HEP Teaching as a Profession members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear RCWS Writing Pedagogies members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for PapersThe 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algom…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDiscussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discu…[Read more]
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.
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Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020: Roundtable for Global Black Studies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoEnthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.
For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]
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